3/20/2024 0 Comments Jessica gee tupelo ms![]() ![]() She is a Fulbright grantee and Kundiman Fellow. Born in Seoul, Hyejung now lives in Kansas with her husband and their two children. Other works include essays in Poetry as Spellcasting and The Critical Flame and a chamber opera libretto. Hyejung Kook’s poetry has appeared in POETRY Magazine, Denver Quarterly, Prairie Schooner, Pleiades, Verse Daily, and elsewhere. Saturday, October 14th at 7 PM at KCAI Gallery: Center for Contemporary Practice, 4415 Warwick Boulevard, Kansas City, MO 64111 Ross for A Common Sense Reading Series! Thank you, Jordan Stempleman, for hosting us. Tomorrow I read with the fabulous Jenny Molberg and Anna V.Q. Free drink tickets for the first twenty attendees! Readings by Sarah Kain Gutowski, Jessica Cuello, Cynthia Marie Hoffman, Vincent James, Hyejung Kook, Ananda Lima, Eugenia Leigh, and Marcus Myers. Ross, Molly Sutton Kiefer, Nadia Colburn, Hyejung Kook, Julie Choffel.Īs if Conjured: A Poetry Reading Celebrating Publication of THE FAMILIAR by Sarah Kain Gutowski ![]() How do the exigencies of today’s convergent crises and new technologies put pressure on and also invigorate communities? We’ll discuss ways to persevere and find restorative and lasting exchange. As poets, essayist, teachers, and editors we’ll explore the creation of community through difficulty. Locked down in our homes and tethered to Zoom, suddenly writers several continents and time zones away were as close as those next door. The past years have upended how and who we think of as community. Room 2211, Kansas City Convention Center, Street Level Write Through It, Write To It: Finding Community in Adversity in Gallery One, reading starts at 6:00 p.m. Readers include Tess Taylor, Iris Jamahl Dunkle, Keetje Kuipers, Nicole Callihan, Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach, among others. Uber/Lyft encouraged.Įighteen poet moms, drawing from a variety of poetic practices and traditions, will share work that occupies the overlapping spaces of our lives-war zone and garden, city and body, climate and house, populace and child. Charlotte Street is located 2.9 miles away from the conference hotel, a ten-minute drive. Come share a poem, stay for community and togetherness. One poem per poet, three to four minutes, any theme. ![]() In a very special off-site gathering, Wednesday Night Poetry-the longest-running consecutive weekly open mic series in the country-convenes at one of Kansas City’s most iconic art spaces, the Stern Theater at Charlotte Street! This is a SAFE SPACE. Ross, Molly Sutton Kiefer, Nadia Colburn, Julie Choffel. It’s been a while, but I’ll be at AWP this year since it’s in my town! I’ll be reading at three off-sites and am on a panel on community building with Anna V. ![]()
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